Improvement in automatic oilers for looms



(-87-) JOSEPH CROOK.

Automatic OHer for Looms.

No. 122,159. PatentedDec.26,1871.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH OROOK, OF LUDLOW, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT m AUTOMATIC oluzs FoR Looms.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,159, dated December26, 1871.

Specification describing a certain Improvement in Automatic Oiler forLooms, invented by J 0- SEPH OROOK, of Ludlow, in the county of Windsorand State of Vermont.

Figure 1 is a detail vertical section of my im-- proved oiler takenthrough the line as as, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved automatic oilerfor looms which shall A is the cup, can, or reservoir for the oil, whichmay be made in the form of an ordinary oiler, or of any other desiredform, and which is provided with a cap, a B are tubes, one or more ofwhich may be used, and the lower ends of which lead into the lower partof the can A. The tubes B incline outward and upward, as shown in Figs.1 and 2, and in them are, placed wicks G, the inner ends of which enterthe cup A, and the outer ends of which project from the outer ends ofthe said tubes B to conduct the oil by capillary attraction from the cupA to the thing to be oiled.

The oiler may be hung from the frame-work of the loom by having aproperly-shaped lug, as a,

the lever that works the catches that work the boxes, thus oiling threeplaces, so that a two-tube oiler keeps eight parts of the loomconstantly oiled.

A single-tube oiler may be arranged to oil the spindle upon which thepicker works.

By this means all the principal parts of the loom are kept constantlyoiled, so that they can'- not be injured by the neglect of the weaver tooil them, and at a very great saving of oil.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- As an article of manufacture, a loom oiler formed ofoil-reservoir A a shank a, and two upwardly-inclined wick-tubes B B setat an angle of about one hundred and twenty degrees, and thus adapted tooil eight parts of the loom,

in the manner described.

JOSEPH GROOK.

Witnesses: V

JAMES S. GILL, GEORGE O. KNIGHT.

